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jersey and new york city. many residents remain without power and heat and struggling to survive. elaine quijano is on staten island. president obama was there to see the damage yesterday. elaine, good morning. >> good morning, elaine and charlie. the job of rebuilding here is so big that president obama has assi assigned a federal point person, asking housing and urban development secretary sean donovan to work with local officials as they begin the long process of recovering. in hard-hit staten island where residents are just beginning to rebuild their lives, president obama pledged the government's support and urged insurance companies to pledge theirs. >> the insurance companies and some of the other private sector folks who are involved in this, we need you to show some heart and some spirit in helping people rebuild as well. >> reporter: the president met with families who lost everything, like sheila and dominic traina, superstorm sandy destroyed the home they lived in for 32 years. dominic says he's st
jersey and new york city. many residents remain without power and heat and struggling to survive. elaine quijano is on staten island. president obama was there to see the damage yesterday. elaine, good morning. >> good morning, elaine and charlie. the job of rebuilding here is so big that president obama has assi assigned a federal point person, asking housing and urban development secretary sean donovan to work with local officials as they begin the long process of recovering. in...
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york city. he has a very important job to do and each and every instrument, as it leaves the building. ♪ >> every piano before it leaves the piano factory here comes to me, and i check over the tone. ♪ >> you don't want out-notes when you play the music. that's loud. ♪ >> that note's louder than this one. in september it was 50 years for me. 50 years i chartered, i went over 18. worked my way through the whole factory. i was a hippie. motorcycles. my first job here was putting a little felt button -- underneath the wooden button. i worked here for a week and then the lady came back who was on vacation and she said get him outta here. that's my job. and then i learned how to make all the parts on the piano. these notes sound louder than these notes. so i would mark it with the chalk. and the top of the hammer. it's going to break up the density of the felt and make the sound softer. 35 years, i've never had a piano to play on. it was just i made the parts,ut them together. i had the urge to
york city. he has a very important job to do and each and every instrument, as it leaves the building. ♪ >> every piano before it leaves the piano factory here comes to me, and i check over the tone. ♪ >> you don't want out-notes when you play the music. that's loud. ♪ >> that note's louder than this one. in september it was 50 years for me. 50 years i chartered, i went over 18. worked my way through the whole factory. i was a hippie. motorcycles. my first job here was...
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. >> reporter: last night in new york looking up meant seeing the city in a different light. hundreds of them, actually all new, all l.e.d. and all unveiled for the first time during an historic light show at the empire state building. the brightest moment this building has ever seen. >> i didn't even know that there were 16 million colors available. >> reporter: bruno is the ceo and president of phillips lighting charged with transforming one of the world's most recognizable buildings by replacing 456 traditional light fixtures with more than 1,200 l.e.d.s. for those looking at the building, this is going to be a significant change. >> it will because the empire state building is going to have the opportunity to really light up close to two acres of their tower and facade with very very dynamic lighting. and i'll do that all with the touch of a button. >> how about the top of the empire state building? >> oh, yes, that's perfect. it's the nearest thing to heaven we have in new york. ♪ >> reporter: since 1976 the empire state building has had colored lights, green for st. p
. >> reporter: last night in new york looking up meant seeing the city in a different light. hundreds of them, actually all new, all l.e.d. and all unveiled for the first time during an historic light show at the empire state building. the brightest moment this building has ever seen. >> i didn't even know that there were 16 million colors available. >> reporter: bruno is the ceo and president of phillips lighting charged with transforming one of the world's most recognizable...
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. >> reporter: new york city firefighter tom buttaro knows all about it. he received a ticket after a camera caught his wife going through a red light. >> the light was 3.9 seconds when my wife went through the intersection. i did research and the proper time is 5.4 seconds. a second and a half shorter than it's supposed to be. >> reporter: on a road with a 55 miles per hour speed limit, that didn't give her enough time to stop. buttaro said he's begun to wonder what the motive behind the red light cameras is. >> unfortunately the farther i look into it, the less >>> it's believed more than half of people who see somebody else yawn will start yawning themselves within the next few minutes. charlie's yawning now. scientists are going to the dogs. that's right. to explain what happens and why it happens. that's next on "cbs this morning." tell me that i did a good job. tell me we'll always be together. ♪ tell me i've still got it. that our traditions matter. tell me you love me for who i am. that you can't wait to be home. tell me you're glad i've joined y
. >> reporter: new york city firefighter tom buttaro knows all about it. he received a ticket after a camera caught his wife going through a red light. >> the light was 3.9 seconds when my wife went through the intersection. i did research and the proper time is 5.4 seconds. a second and a half shorter than it's supposed to be. >> reporter: on a road with a 55 miles per hour speed limit, that didn't give her enough time to stop. buttaro said he's begun to wonder what the...
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whether you're going to new york city or whether you're traveling halfway across the globe, you will find usually hundreds if not thousands of reviews for everything you're looking at. what's the real incentive to do anything different than trust all those opinions? that's what your friends are telling you. >> yelp put a consumer warning pointing out some were fake. will you do something like that? >> we have about a dozen years learning how to capture all the folks that might manipulate the index. it doesn't happen as much as might one might take. we have the secret sauce, the algorithms that prevent those reviews from getting posted. once in a while we catch a hotel that's been warned but trying to influence the rankings. we put a big red badge on the site that says to the consumer you might want to think twice about believing all the reviews that are written here. of course that's meaningful. >> speaking of the secret sauce your background is computer science. you have a degree in computer science from harvard. how much has that played into what you've done with trip adviser and t
whether you're going to new york city or whether you're traveling halfway across the globe, you will find usually hundreds if not thousands of reviews for everything you're looking at. what's the real incentive to do anything different than trust all those opinions? that's what your friends are telling you. >> yelp put a consumer warning pointing out some were fake. will you do something like that? >> we have about a dozen years learning how to capture all the folks that might...